(We’ll forgive them for stealing our name!) Archive Futures: Operations, Time Objects, Collectives Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, 14 – 20 June 2015 Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Location: Germany Closing Date: 10 December 2014 Coordinators: Christoph Eggersglüß (Weimar), Mladen Gladic (Princeton) The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies – a collaboration between the Bauhaus-Universität […]
Category Archives: call for papers
CFP: Radical Archives
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Archive Journal on the theme of Radical Archives Deadline: April 15, 2015 “Radical archives” and “radical archiving” are concepts that continue to gain currency among archivists, artists and cultural theorists alike, but to date, discussions of “radical archives” and “radical archiving” often appear to rest on an […]
CFP: 40th anniversary issue of Archivaria
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Call for Papers for a 40th Anniversary Issue of Archivaria (Fall 2015) Archivaria Anniversary Issue: To Understand Ourselves In 1953, the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association was born. A decade later, Hugh Dempsey, the first editor of The Canadian Archivist, argued that “the Archives Section feels it would perform a useful service by […]
Call for submissions: Archives and Manuscripts
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Archives and Manuscripts is the professional and scholarly journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, publishing articles, reviews, and information about the theory and practice of archives and recordkeeping in Australasia and around the world. Its target audiences are archivists and other recordkeeping professionals, the academic community, and all involved in the study and interpretation […]
CFP: Fashion Research Now: Archives
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Fashion Research Now: Archives CALL FOR PAPERS The inaugural issue of Fashion Research Now reflects the aims of the Fashion Research Network: presenting critical, innovative and interdisciplinary research on fashion and dress. It will provide a space for early career researchers and PhD students to publish current and innovative research. Submissions are […]
CFP: Archives on Fire
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Call for Papers RECONSTRUCTION: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org/ Volume 16.1 (2016) ARCHIVES ON FIRE: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields Archives today are on fire–energized and endangered, mobile and mutable, ubiquitous and unique–as the library’s form and function in society undergo significant changes. Digital tools, open-access platforms, and social networks are transforming the fields […]
CFP: Failure in the Archives
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The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) is pleased to announce Failure in the Archives, a conference celebrating the frustrations of archival research, to be held on 30 October 2014 and featuring a keynote address by Natalie Zemon Davis. Failure in the Archives will provide a forum to examine everything that doesn’t belong […]
CFP: LETTERS — MAKING AND MEANINGS
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Friday 27 June 2014 Venue: Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
CFP: Forbidden Access: Censoring Books and Archives
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6-7 November 2014, Senate House, University of London A collaboration between the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Senate House Library. ‘Forbidden Access’ is a multidisciplinary conference exploring how published works and archival materials and the ideas contained in them are affected, obscured or distorted by censorship. The […]
CFP Musical Materialities
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Musical Materialities in the Digital Age, 27-28 June 2014, University of Sussex Music, while summoning notions of intangibility, transience and loss, is also associated with material objects that serve to ground the musical, make the transient permanent and defer loss. Unearthing music’s association with materiality reveals a fascinating array of artefacts, including instruments, scores, transcribing […]
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